I haven’t posted any needlework in the past couple weeks, and I feel guilty. I swear there’s a reason! I’m working on a super-top-secret piece and while it’s in progress, I am not able to share it. Once I can – you’ll be the first to know!

It’s not often that you come across someone who is bending the medium of needlework. Usually designers play with it, make it cute or rebellious and fool around. Robin Hobbs of Robin’s Design on Etsy creates cross stitch patterns which are embroidered flat and then sewn into 3D art dolls.

Ron Swanson 3D Cross Stitch. Photo courtesy of Robin’s Design.

The designer occasionally published her work-in-progress pictures in the subreddit, and it’s awesome to see the flat surface be transformed in the three dimensional shapes with shading and colouring.